702. Roman Civil War: The Barbarian Invasion (Part 2)

Even citizens found their city confusing. The only way to negotiate it was to memorize notable landmarks. A fig tree, perhaps, or a market's colonnade. Or best of all, a temple large enough to loom above the maze of narrow streets. Fortunately, Rome was a devout city, and temples abounded.

The Romans' reverence for the past meant that ancient structures were hardly ever demolished, not even when the open spaces in which they might once have stood had long since vanished under brick. temples loomed over slums or meat markets. They shentered veiled statues whose very identities might have been forgotten, and yet no one ever thought To demolish them. These fragments of an archaic past preserved in stone, fossils from the earliest days of the city provided the Romans with a desperately needed sense of bearing. Eternal

Like the gods whose spirits pervaded them, they stood like anchors dropped in a storm. Meanwhile On all sides, amid a din of hammering, rumbling wagon wheels and crashing rubble, the city was endlessly being rebuilt. Torn down. and rebuilds.

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